Bulgaria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
Forest rents are roundwood harvest times the product of regional prices and a regional rental rate. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Bulgaria
Records
63
Source
Bulgaria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
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1971
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1973
1974
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1979
0.67017452 1980
0.54937893 1981
0.45809374 1982
0.47601435 1983
0.48496205 1984
0.57452887 1985
0.50001849 1986
0.30103307 1987
0.42228818 1988
0.42165887 1989
0.39452708 1990
0.60813346 1991
0.63564631 1992
0.6057823 1993
0.44653839 1994
0.27191751 1995
0.47830073 1996
0.43759781 1997
0.29420296 1998
0.52400011 1999
0.46081945 2000
0.32746916 2001
0.32041428 2002
0.31415044 2003
0.33084608 2004
0.289636 2005
0.30278639 2006
0.27855603 2007
0.27246404 2008
0.19800309 2009
0.24216139 2010
0.28188515 2011
0.26000744 2012
0.24257339 2013
0.22362973 2014
0.25488969 2015
0.22510257 2016
0.26577323 2017
0.24613037 2018
0.22094354 2019
0.19973775 2020
0.17186168 2021
2022
Bulgaria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
Forest rents are roundwood harvest times the product of regional prices and a regional rental rate. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Bulgaria
Records
63
Source